The director of one of 2024’s most anticipated sci-fi horror movies,Alien: Romulus, has offered an update on the now-confirmed sequel. FilmmakerFede Álvarezhas now revealed the promising news that everyone is on board to continue with the franchise…but they still need an interesting story to carry on the adventures of space’s deadliest creatures, the xenomorphs.
Rumors were quickly thrown around the internet when the film becamethe highest-grossing horror filmof the year after its release, and fans are clamoring for more of Álvarez’s take on theAlienfranchise, originally created by Ridley Scott in 1979. With thesequel being officially confirmedlast month, Álvarez has now spoken toGizmodoabout the potentialAlien: Romulusproject, declaring that he “definitely” wants to do it. He just needs to find the “right story.”
“We definitely want to do it. The studio wants to do it. I want to do it. I think with sequels, it’s always about finding the right story. Me and Rodo [Sayagues], my co-writer, we have some ideas, but it’s not until we find something that we go ‘Ok, that is a movie worth making’ that we really embark on it. So that’s the process we are in right now, trying to find a story that is worthy of everyone’s time and is worthy of the title. Otherwise, you never want to fall into the mistake of making [a sequel] just because the first one is a big hit … [making a sequel] just because you’re able to make it, that’s always a recipe for disaster.”
In the Meantime, You Can Watch ‘Alien: Romulus’ in the Most Retro Way Possible
Alien: Romuluswas released back in August 2024, and was acclaimed as one of the best installments in the franchise. It made over $350 million at the box office, and 20th Century Studios (or “Disney for adults”) celebrated Álvarez’s hit. No wonder they want a sequel. The film tells the story of space workers who try to escape the harrowing conditions at LV-410 and board an abandoned spaceship. The problem is that something deadly is living in the spaceship and the group soon finds themselves under attack.
Alien: Romulus Finally Gets a Streaming Release Date
Alien: Romulus is coming to streaming just in time for Thanksgiving.
Alien: Romulus, which is now streaming on Hulu, is also getting the usual 4K release. But, Disney has also decided to make good use of the nostalgia aspect of the film, and for the first time in over 30 years, they have commissioneda VHS release. Álvarez is proud to say that this was actually his idea:
“It all started when we released that scene and a trailer on VHS. That was partly because I didn’t want to release a scene too soon. I didn’t want to spoil a moment of the movie too early on the promotion side. The compromise we made with the studio was like, ‘Okay, well, I’ll release it, but we’ll [do it on] VHS.’ I knew that people that were going to [watch] the scene had, [much like me], an emotional connection with the original movie—that [they] discovered it on VHS, the first one, and then the second one maybe [they saw] in theaters but also watched on VHS.
So when we did that, we found out that it’s still a thing—you’re able to actually mass-produce VHS, which everybody thought was not a thing [anymore].
It is very easy to be seen just as a stunt, just as a promotional thing, but it’s not at all for me. I discovered those movies in that format and that vibe and that style, that sort of color range and spectrum of sound—it has such a very specific vibe to it that as soon as you play it, as soon as I play it, it just takes me there. It puts a magic on it because I—you know, I was born in ‘78, so when the boom of VHS was happening, that was when I was discovering films. And so it was very special for me that the studio actually agreed to do it. If I love it, someone else out there will love it too.”
Alien: Romulus
